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Thursday, May 10, 2012

Is Evaporated Cane Juice Better Than Sugar?

Evaporated cane juice is also known as dried cane syrup. In fact, the Food and Drug Administration in 2009 issued guidelines objecting to the term evaporated cane juice because it "falsely suggests the sweeteners are juice." The proper name, says the government, is dried cane syrup.

However, the FDA seems to be missing the point. The average, and even above average, consumer still doesn't have a clue what dried cane syrup is, and might now be misled into thinking that dried cane syrup is a syrup and not just sugar.

Granted it is not-so-white, a-little-less-refined, way-more-expensive sugar, but sugar none the less ... Read the entire article.